solar location on Truck camper
my truck camper has a slanted roof over the bed, and flat over the rear section. I am looking at fixed position mounting of solar panels. (mostly being used in East coast central US during summer). ...
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HMS Beagle wrote:
But even a bit of shade on one part of the panel will reduce it to near nothing. Each cell acts like a current sourc, and they are in series, so if one has no sun it shuts off the whole chain.
This is very dated information. Most solar panels today use blocking diodes so shade over a single cell only affects that cell, not the whole panel.
To towpro, I would mount them on the flat part of your camper roof. While upgrading my solar I had given some thought to adding panels to the cabover portion of the camper to give the panels some tilt, but then I would have to always park facing south. Not worth whatever small gain I may see in output by having them tilted, IMHO.
